Excellent news, and thanks. I’ve gotten good at guess-timating my FPS in DCS from 2D results, at least with my 1080 (non-Ti); almost always exactly 50% in VR.
And yeah, the 3090 means a whole new PC for me. Not in the budget.
Thanks again.
JR
I think my Oculus Rift S is broken or something. I get 80 fps and 90 percent performance headroom and yet it’s still jumpy. I’m going to try a few things tonight to try and get it running smoothly.
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Eureka! Stupid ASUS Aura Sync RGB lighting software was screwing my VR up!? I just uninstalled four Aura apps (!) and we’re good. I couldn’t care less about RGB. It’s still RGBing though. 
I also plugged my Rift S into my best USB port (3.2 rev 2).
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I missed this earlier - is it working ok with 750 watts? Is another thing I’ll have to upgrade though as I only[!?] have 500.
it’s rated 300 tdp
another 100watts or more for cpu
some peripherals and hd’s
and a 500watt psu starts being on the small size…
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I had issues with this as well…
Be careful sizing to TDP.
TDP is power draw at a typical complex load and the definition varies between manufacturers as to what that is. Peak load can be much higher. I haven’t tested my GPU, but on the CPU scale my I9-9900K has a TDP of 95W but the peak load is over 220W.
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They should rename it TTDP for “typical TDP”. However, I hear Intel really doesn’t place too much importance on it anymore anyway. With boosts and turbo and uberboost and turbouber or whatever to get more performance when the CPU will support it, they have let the performance/watt curve be blown out if it suits them.
Bottom line is if you have a CPU and/or GPU that are priced above mainstream ($500/$400 respectively) you better have a solid PSU or you could be looking at instability under load.
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So for under half the price of the 2080Ti, with a smaller amount of less expensive VRAM, you can get the same performance. If you map $/fps, that makes it a better value than many cards, even if it’s beaten by many of the more expensive ones.
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Yeah, I’ve seen another test of the 3070 (on a German site) and it looks pretty good to me.
I won’t upgrade since I have a 2070S and I am happy so far, but if I was still on a 1080 or earlier I’d definitely buy a 3070.
ehm… have you seen team red offers?
(i’m becoming a fanboy! 
)
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Fair point.
I might return to AMD one day. Left them in the early 2000s because of their driver mess each time.
In both nvidia and AMDs cases though: wait until you see real life results in the specific games you play. I vividly remember how pissed my buddy was when his AMD card, which was much faster on paper, was actually 20% slower than my nvidia card in DCSW and couldn’t run another game at all.
Had to delete my above post because it was really stupid LOL. I was rebutting Jedi’s comment after getting 2070 stats mixed up with 3070 stats and stupidity ensued LOL!
Seriously though, the 3070 card looks good!
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I’m finally at a point where I’m on negotiations to produce a new show, which would be excellent news by itself in this freaking year - But to sweeten up the deal, it looks like I’ll be having to build a monster high end PC around January. I think it will be one of the best periods in recent history to do that, and it’s looking like a full AMD build, especially if the RX 6900XT delivers…
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I guess AMD’s past that at that point. If we think both consoles will be running AMD Big Navi (probably because of the clear efficiency superiority), most games will already be optimised for AMD’s board features already.
I still believe will see some very interesting mid cycle offerings from Nvidia with good prices, thanks to that market push. They both will have very compelling selling points, with Nvidia’s DLSS and RTX features probably more mature (not to mention their studio drivers) and better streamlined, versus AMD’s better performance per watt. For flight simmers though, the 6900 XT seems like a great choice. 3090 power levels without the monster power consumption for 500 less, and you only loose DLSS and RTX features our sim software doesn’t use (especially in VR)…
Very exciting.
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And drivers are still going to have to improve. They maybe a competitive card but if the drivers suck…
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So that 50% preliminary gain in 4K I reported might’ve been shortsighted. That was tested with graphics settings that made the 1080ti look good. As soon as you start throwing “Ultra” graphics settings at the 3080 I think it really starts to show its muscle.
A good example is Red Dead Redemption 2 … had trouble running with good framerates at 4K with the 1080ti at mediocre/subsampled graphics. Tonight I tried EVERYTHING set to Ultra on the 3080 and was seeing framerates as high as 75! I turned Vsync (60 Hz) back on to keep the temps down but now I’m thinking the 3080 is giving me performance gains of 100% over the 1080ti!
Cheers!
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We said that w/ Xbox One and PS4…
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rDNA2 Supports RayTracing,
And has an open source version of DLSS